Things Shaped in Passing: More "Poets for Life" Writing from the Aids Pandemic Book

	Here, but Differently
	Introduction
	Metaphors for the Body In Extremis	3
	The Weight	4
	From A Language of Hemophilia	5
	The Care and Treatment of Pain	13
	El Dia de los Muertos	15
	The Distant Moon	16
	Age 5 Born with AIDS	17
	Aida	18
	Love Poem with the Wind of Calvary	19
	Sung from a Hospice	20
	From the Artichoke Capital of the World Namesake of Fidel, As In the Queer Part of San Francisco	22
	40 Days and 40 Nights	25
	Carnations	26
	The Gondolas	27
	Contemporary Culture and the Letter "K"	29
	Duende	32
	Trying to Flee a Dark Bedroom	33
	Jade	34
	Future Text Panel	39
	Poem for a Poem	40
	The Falling Sky	42
	Blood Positive	43
	Wednesday Mourning	43
	G-9	45
	Parachute	60
	D.O.A.	62
	Grosse Fuge	65
	One of the Rooming-Houses of Heaven	70
	Atlantis	71
	David Limieux	82
	Homeless, Section III from "Triptych"	84
	Lament	88
	Memory Unsettled	91
	The J Car	91
	Against Elegies	93
	Wednesday I.D. Clinic	97
	For Matthew Ward, 1951-90	98
	"Man Who Beat Up Homosexuals Reported to Have AIDS Virus"	100
	How Some of It Happened	107
	For Three Days	108
	A Certain Light	109
	The Promise	110
	What the Living Do	111
	Suite for Emily	112
	After the Disease Concept	124
	AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS	125
	Inventory	127
	Althea	128
	Review	129
	Waste Not	130
	SFO/HIV/JFK	131
	Beauty	132
	Some Things Shouldn't Be Written	134
	Future Senses	135
	Nights of 1990	137
	After You Died	142
	Tony: Ending the Life	143
	The Useful Machine	147
	Here	149
	Manifesto	150
	The Bee-Eater	152
	Watching the Solar Eclipse with AIDS Patients in Infectious Disease Clinic, May 10, 1994	154
	The Illustrious Providence of Solid Tumors	154
	The Pathologist Dictates	155
	As from a Quiver of Arrows	157
	Tunnel	158
	From the Devotions	160
	In the Blood, Winnowing	162
	Poem to Begin the Second Decade of AIDS	165
	HIV Research Project	167
	Watching "Destry Rides Again"	168
	Kindertotenlieder	169
	A Plague for Kit Marlowe	170
	Blood Test	172
	Peschanka	173
	The End	174
	In Sickness and in Health	176
	To the Memory of David Kalstone	178
	The Night of Wally's Service, Wally Said	178
	William's Tale: The King of AIDS	179
	Baby Random	182
	So What Would You Have Done?	183
	For My Third Cousin Ray John	185
	Last Rights	186
	That Thing	187
	Waiting	189
	The Bruise of This	193
	How I Was Told and Not Told	194
	Pneumocystis	195
	Hmmmm	206